Does he really care?

Coming home

-Skip to after practice-

I was sitting in the coach's office waiting for him to arrive.

"Ah Walters just the man I wanted to see," He said closing the door.

"Hey coach," I said quietly

"I heard your conversation in the locker room, I want to know details." He said spinning around in his chair.

"Oh thank god," I exhaled slouching, "I was scared for a second."

"Scared of what?"

"That you were kicking me off the team."

"Oh no, you're phenomenal I would never."

"Ok, what do you wanna know?"

"I wanna know who first of all."

"Dakota Williams."

"Sounds familiar does she have a brother?"

"No."

"You gotta photo?"

"On my phone yes."

"Go get your phone."

I ran over to my locker and grabbed my phone. As I was walking back I turned it on showing my coach my background.

"Ah yes, we were warned about her father."

I froze.

"Such a horrible man," He said shaking his head.

"Yea tell me about it," I muttered closing the door.

"How do you deal with him, isn't he super violent towards her?"

"He killed himself," I said blankly

His eyes went wide.

"She would just stay at my house when things would get bad," I quickly followed.

"Where does she stay now?" He asked.

"She stays at my house."

He nodded. "Do your parents like her?"

"Yea they love her."

"This reminds me of my wife, ya know we were high school sweethearts." He said sitting up

"Oh, no way I actually didn't know that. Did everyone make fun of you guys too?" I asked genuinely curious if this was normal.

"Ya they did but we are happily married and they are all still single, so who's laughing now."

"That's gonna be me and Dakota." I smiled.

"When do you plan on asking to marry her?"

"I don't know what a good time is, like do I do it when we are 18 or do I wait until after college or do I do it during college? When does this stuff happen?" I rambled.

"You could always just propose and then wait until after college to get married."

"I never thought of that."

"That's what we did, just remember it's always an option."

I nodded.

"Am I gonna see her at games?"

"Yes, she's out of the state right now. Visiting with her family, I wanted to go but she said no cause I had to focus on baseball."

"I like her already, she's not the type to distract you."

"Oh no she distracts me, not on purpose though." I smiled.

"I know exactly what you're talking about."